Effectively Wild Episode 2301: Organing Day

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Ben Lindbergh and FanGraphs writer Dan Szymborski banter about how much spring training stats matter, which players improved their projections the most this spring, whether prospects really have a harder time making the transition to MLB from Triple-A today, their spring training award winners, the five-ish biggest questions/storylines for each of them this MLB season, and a smattering of “bold predictions” from EW listeners. Then (1:23:29) Ben brings back the “Baseball Jobs” series by interviewing Josh Kantor, longtime Fenway Park organist, to talk about how he got his gig, his side projects, the ins and outs of his in-game responsibilities, the upcoming season, and much more, followed by a brief keyboard performance.

Audio intro: The Gagnés, “Effectively Wild Theme 2”
Audio interstitial: Josh Kantor and Nancy Faust, “Sweet Caroline”
Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme”

Link to 2015 spring study
Link to Hoyer quote
Link to Ben’s new prospects article
Link to Ben’s old prospects article
Link to spring champions
Link to ST team wins
Link to FG ST leaderboards
Link to five Clemens questions
Link to listener bold predictions
Link to EW predictions ballot
Link to previous Baseball Jobs pod
Link to Josh Kantor wiki
Link to Baseball Project pod
Link to Baseball Project song
Link to Kaminski pod

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. Just making sure you know that there's a fun conversation with Josh Cantor, Fenway Park Organist for the Red Sox later on this episode. I don't actually mention that until it's time to tee him up and bring him in. So now you know, and it's worth sticking around for. Also, if you're listening to this before first pitch on opening day, go to eWStats.com and assess the likelihood of our bold predictions. the state place the beef boys are chweets Les Avivadeauce super
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0:55.0	Hello, and welcome to episode 2301 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from
1:18.7	Fangraphs presented by our Patreon supporters. I am Ben Lindbergh of the Ringer, not joined
1:25.0	today by Meg Rally of Fangraphs because she has succumbed to the
1:29.6	positional power rankings. She has fought the good fight, but ultimately she needed a day to
1:35.6	vanquish them once and for all. And so filling in for her here at the start is one of the
1:41.2	positional power rankers, Dan Zimborski of Fangraphs. Hello, Dan.
1:46.3	I bet I'm one of the causes of her exhaustion, I'm sure.
1:50.5	Yes, I think that's not inaccurate, but it's really not your fault. It's more just the fault of the positional power rankings as an entity.
1:57.2	But she's been working around the clock, and then I just said, do you need a day?
2:03.2	And she said, yeah, I could use a day. So she will be back next time just after she wraps up
2:08.7	everything and gets to enjoy opening day and a baseball nap on opening day, hopefully a well-deserved
2:14.6	baseball nap, and we'll be back to talk about that. On Friday, you have also been busy, as we have been talking about off-air, because you've got a lot of projections to run.
2:25.7	Before the season starts, you have to get all of your den simulations in here so that you can pass judgment on what exactly will happen and you can look prescient
2:37.6	in retrospect and you can run all the Sims so that the season doesn't actually need to be
2:43.6	played because you have already pronounced what will happen.
2:46.3	Yeah, you see, my feeling is that wrong projections are errors in reality, not the projections themselves.
2:52.1	Yeah.
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